Zoos in Australia and around the world, and the year's myths put right, sentence 14

Myths put right this year: elephants are not afraid of mice (though any small sudden thing may startle them), lions do not hunt mice, ostriches do not bury their heads, lemmings do not jump off cliffs on purpose, bats are not blind and goldfish remember for months.

Who acts: Myths, elephants, small sudden thing, lions, ostriches, lemmings · What happens: put, not be, startle, not hunt, not bury, not jump off · To what, where: Elephants, mice, heads, cliffs, purpose

This is a sentence of the lesson «Zoos in Australia and around the world, and the year's myths put right» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Myths, elephants, small sudden thing, lions), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Myths	myth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	right	right	ADV	_	2 put	advmod
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 year	det
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obl:unmarked
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 afraid	punct
7	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 afraid	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 afraid	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 afraid	advmod
10	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 put	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 mice	case
12	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 afraid	obl
13	(	(	PUNCT	_	20 startle	punct
14	though	though	SCONJ	_	20 startle	mark
15	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 thing	det
16	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 thing	amod
17	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 thing	amod
18	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 startle	nsubj
19	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 startle	aux
20	startle	startle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 afraid	advcl
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 startle	obj
22	)	)	PUNCT	_	20 startle	punct
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 hunt	punct
24	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 hunt	nsubj
25	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 hunt	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 hunt	advmod
27	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 afraid	conj
28	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 hunt	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 bury	punct
30	ostriches	ostrich	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 bury	nsubj
31	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 bury	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 bury	advmod
33	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 afraid	conj
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 heads	nmod:poss
35	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 bury	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 jump	punct
37	lemmings	lemming	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 jump	nsubj
38	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 jump	aux
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 jump	advmod
40	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 afraid	conj
41	off	off	ADP	_	40 jump	compound:prt
42	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 jump	obj
43	on	on	ADP	_	44 purpose	case
44	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 jump	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 blind	punct
46	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 blind	nsubj
47	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 blind	cop
48	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	49 blind	advmod
49	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 afraid	conj
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 remember	cc
51	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 remember	nsubj
52	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 blind	conj
53	for	for	ADP	_	54 months	case
54	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 remember	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	Myths			year	right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	not is	present	elephants				of mice; afraid property	tree rules
3	startle	may	any small sudden thing	Elephants = elephant				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
4	not hunt	present · do-support	lions	mice				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme
5	not bury	present · do-support	ostriches	zoos's heads				vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
6	not jump off	present · do-support	lemmings	cliffs	purpose			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent cliff=Theme on purpose=Trajectory
7	not is	present	bats				blind property	tree rules
8	remember	present	goldfish			month		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:biology:117-zoos-around-the-world-and-myths-put-right.lesson:14.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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